Mr. Sharpe, being a former banker and long time associate & advisor to leading Tories, including our fat leader, is also the incoming chairman of the BBC. When married, he and his wife were thought to be worth around half a billion - in any event rich enough to have his portrait painted, snapped above. Clearly one of the chaps.
According to yesterday's Guardian, he thinks that most people, while paying lip-service to the desirability of there being a relatively impartial news offering, are not prepared to pay for it and mostly actually prefer the more entertaining, if thoroughly mendacious, offerings of the likes of Murdoch with his Sun newspaper and Fox News television channel.
Which may well be true, but the outlook for democracy in the country that goes on about being its inventor is not good when our ruling classes think that our interests - or perhaps their interests - are best served by winding down one of our few respectable news operations.
PS: while at the same time running on about how awful it is that Putin is in charge of news in Russia.
References
Reference 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Sharp_(BBC_chairman).
Reference 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_News.
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